adidas Womens: Community Building

BUILD IT & SHE’LL BRING IT

Building true brand love doesn’t just happen overnight. Like any relationship, it takes time, it takes engagement and it requires building a community. So that’s what we did.

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If You Build It She Will Come

To help adidas reach women in an impactful way, we built communities in LA & NYC with a focus on three things:


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1. One Size Does NOT Fit All

We gave her options with three activation themes: CREATE CONFIDENCE, CREATE COMMUNITY and CREATE BETTER.


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A woman looks at a wall of notes and images clipped to strings around a sign that reads: What Does Community Mean To You?
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2. Meet Her Where She Already Is

We stayed local. We partnered with groups already working in each community. We elevated Influencers who were natural community leaders.


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3. Be There. For Her. Always.

We provided what these women actually needed: a sustained opportunity for connection and conversation – a purpose-built community.


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A woman plants an herb in a pot at an adidas Women’s event.

Community Engagement Becomes Record Engagement

Women opened emails, stalked our community website for upcoming events and shared self-generated content with our hashtags. Instead of the typical marketing email “delete response,” 35% more people opened ours; almost 94% of the adidas hashtag was user-generated. All of this added up to a vibrant community and record engagement with the adidas brand.


WHAT DRIVES US

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